BSOD...

Afran

Afran

Afran

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Hey,

I've had the below system for about 7 months now, I'm not experiencing any issues other than the bsod I just encountered and I'm wondering if it's any cause for concern and what the problem could be etc?

I ran WhoCrashed and there wasn't any dump files to read and I see nothing about it in EventViewer. The BSOD screen error was "STOP: 0xA0000001."

These are my specs and I'm running at stock:

Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz
Gigabyte Z87-HD3 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150)
Seasonic G series 550w '80 Plus Gold' PSU
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3
MSI Radeon R9 280X Gaming Edition OC 3072MB

Also, I'm running Windows 7 (64 bit) and using AMD drivers 14.4 (was using the beta ones before this but switched two weeks ago as the beta ones cause fps hitches on Path of Exile).

Any help would be great to either find the problem or put my mind at rest =p
 
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Aye, googled the "0xA0000001" but as I usually find with BSOD's, there's just so many results and people saying different things it doens't really help heh. Was your error code anything similar? Bare in mind I've used these drivers for a good 6 months (other than the ~month I used the beta drivers for playing Wildstar) and this is the first BSOD I've had.
 
'One BSOD does not a problem make'...or something.

If you've only had one then don't worry - if you get more then post back and we'll see what we can do to help.
 
Afran said:
Aye, googled the "0xA0000001" but as I usually find with BSOD's, there's just so many results and people saying different things it doens't really help heh. Was your error code anything similar? Bare in mind I've used these drivers for a good 6 months (other than the ~month I used the beta drivers for playing Wildstar) and this is the first BSOD I've had.
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Can't tell as on holiday at mo :). Was using 14.4 drivers for months and then got 2 bsods within last month both pointing to same error in AMD file in driver.
 
ExRayTed said:
'One BSOD does not a problem make'...or something.

If you've only had one then don't worry - if you get more then post back and we'll see what we can do to help.
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^ this ^ and then some. everyone will see a BSOD from time to time. unless its recurring at an alarming rate just ignore it,
 
Well it's caused by Atikmdag.sys it's a non specific AMD related BSOD not much info to get out investigating crash logs really.

It can be caused by a number of things both software and hardware.

Here's what you can try:


Reset all overclocks to stock.
Monitor temperatures on everything. Make sure to check vrm temps on gpu.
Update motherboard bios.
Update all drivers on pc
Uninstall AMD drivers with display driver uninstaller. Reinstall 14.7. See if that helps.


See if you get any bsods. If you do it's format time. If formatting doesn't help then you need to think about it being hardware related. Download Memtest. Run it for ages see what pops up.


When I had my r9 290 in my old x58 system (i7 950) I would get a bsod once every 2-3 days. More if I ran my max CPU over clock. Now that r9 290 is in a brand new haswell system it hasn't crashed once, either my old PSU wasn't up to the job or the motherboard/ram was causing an issue,

It's hard to say what causes it put hopefully an update of all drivers/bios will fix things, but hard to say really.

How long have you had all the parts for?
 
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